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fhewyou, from the remoter antiquities, as far as the learnedeft 
Greeks z[\d Roma/fs could reach , that the hilis and mountains^ 
and fuch flinty precipices, and fueh light land, as was worft 
for tillage, and pafture, was beftfor Vineyards, the fteep fides 
eafily pared into the Trenches, for a conftanc fupply ; and 
that the Wine from the Hills, and from the Mountains, was ever 
efteemed the richeft. And Milford have^ was once famous for 
plenty of rich Wine from the Mountains of Wales ^ and may be 
fo again hereafter, if we go on , as we begin to do 5 and 'tis as 
cheap to try the Vines of Smyrna, and Greece^ of the Canaries^ 
of MontefiAjeo^ the Falerniat^ and ChUn^ as any vulgar Vine 3 
hutjor Vines in our Northern climates we jhouU chooje the Sou- 
thern declivity ^ and make a trench to carry, off the rain above ^ 
before the Jlream falls into the trenches of Vines. Tis as well 
the Honour as the Wealth of a people to plant and till their 
land with the richeft and mofl: ufeful commodities it will bear 5 
and where nature is difficult, there to furmount it With Art, 
and Induftry, And *tis better to improve our own Gountrcy, 
than to conquer another. And a liitle Farm well tilled is bet- 
. ter than a Mannorof large wafte : Laudato ingentia rura^ Exi" 
guum colito, faid Columella after VirgiL *Tis not eafie to number, 
how many wide Trads of wafte laiid in England and Wales bdive 
been reduced by artificial culture to be the richeft land , fince 
the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
t8. Sir, You will excufe this prolixity, fince we are more 
neerly concerned to fearch out the caufes of Fertility, and to 
'find thebeft remedies againft Sterility, than to deteftmany mi- 
nute and curious rarities , and fome of thofe , which we call 
Occult Nudities. But I doubt, I have taken too much pains, 
and have given you too much trouble in proving, that warm- 
ing (learns do perpetually afcend from fome quick Springs, and 
from fome Trafts of land, fince 'tis fo vtdgarly obferved, that 
when the fnow falls, and lies long on the brows of fmall hills, 
nor worthy the name of hills, within a mile round about us , ic 
very feldome fnowes in our Villages but melts in the fall- 
ing, or falls in a few large flakes, which are alfo diflTolved 
as foon as they touch the Earthy or make no long ftay 
^there» 
ip. And 
